Vali Petcu blog

This article is not new. But is very useful in pointing out how and what journalism has became. And in Romania also, don’t think we are special. We got AdPlayers.ro, an advertising blog, who charge 5.000€ a year for listing a company on their directory and bashes companies and people who do not subscribe. I […]

Ian Clifton makes a lot of good points about the superiority of Android over iOS. I agree with him on all counts, Android is a technologically better product. But… iOS does a very good job at keeping things simple and a lot of users want that. I don’t want a widget on my screen. I […]

Social Media and the noise that accompanies it has made us forget the lost art of being humble and modest. Those who bark the loudest are believed to be the experts they say they are. There is this great scene in "Predators" where the Yakuza guy is  asked why he, if he does speak English, […]

The first reason that comes to mind is the one everybody knows: the PC is almost dead. But, there is more to it that that. Dell never had good products. It had cheap products. Mediocre products. Not having good products made people look for alternatives and as soon as it found them. Dell existed only […]

We, some old bloggers, are having quite a laugh there days with a niche blogger that writes about medium and expensive products on his blog, ignoring that his audience is low and medium income. Five minutes on his blog and twitter account reveals that people love his clean brand and image, but do not have […]

The launch date for iPhone 5S is approaching fast. It could be April, it could be June. Rumors are flying. Here is what I would do: iPhone 5S mini – the cheaper iPhone everyone is expecting from Apple for the developing countries marketshare war against Android. Comes with a 3.5 inch screen, in blue, pink […]

In the last few weeks I have become aware of two companies going bankrupt one due to mismanagement and one due to supporting the wrong party for the elections. The people I care for in this companies try to play it out, even after I asked them to find another jobs, because they think things […]

I thought the media agencies are making the big money, keeping their clients’ presence up to date, creating facebook apps and more. But it seems not. Could the bloggers and the influencers be the ones that are making money with Social Media?

I did some video conversion on my shiny new laptop with Windows 7, SSD and a i5 processor. I understood the processor load has gone to 100% and the fan was spinning like crazy. Half an hour after the conversion has stopped and i was only doing Chrome, the fan has not stopped his crazy […]

Google Reader is shutting down, citing low usage. I understand, RSS has never been popular thing. But rather than ask 50$/year for a service a lot of people were using and be glad to pay that money, Google is shutting it down. FeedBurner is next, citing same RSS is dead thing. And then maybe Gmail.